LITERATURE
Focus: Nursery Rhymes
- Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
- Hickory, Dickory Dock
- Diddle, Diddle Dumpling
- Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
- Humpty Dumpty
MATH
This week's focus: ABA and Shrinking Patterns
During the months of April, May, June students will work on the following skills
- numbers to 100 (ordering, identifying, representing, and writing)
- addition and subtraction
- ordinal position: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th
- patterns : ABA and shrinking
- capacity
- telling time to the hour
- money: identify coins and the coin’s value, counting coins with the same value
Throughout the year students will explore math through open-ended- problem solving journals, math stations, ipads/ipods, IXL, rekenreks, and a variety of math manipulatives.
HANDWRITING/WRITING
Students will begin their unit -writing for readers. Students will work on writing about true events in their lives focusing on making their writing readable to others and including a beginning middle, and end.
CORE KNOWLEDGE
Weather- kindergarteners will learn about the 4 seasons including the temperature and activities /proper clothing associated with specific seasons.
